HOW WAS YOUR MONTH?

I am almost to 38.  That's 38 pushups that I will be doing morning and night starting next Tuesday morning.  That will mark the beginning of the 2nd month of this year, 2011, that seemed to start just a couple of weeks ago.  I really made only one new year's resolution for 2011, and that was to do this blog in place of my journal writing.  Well, actually I made two and we did get to the temple in the month of January, so I am good.  Beyond that my day's routine is full of new year's resolutions that I made a long time ago and I am still doing daily.  Some go back up to 25 years and I'm still doing them.  My pushups are almost into 38 months. That's over three years.  I have the tightest abs in the family.  (maybe)   I take satisfaction in that daily routine of mine, but it is just something that I do, not who I am.  But I can make a case for the idea that it helps make me what I am too.  In some ways I don't feel old enough to have lived my life.  Somehow I just jumped from being newly married to my here and now which has me married almost 42 years and the 'one' of us with 8 kids of our own and 22 (and counting) grand kids.  (did you catch on to that 'one' of us?)  I have learned to live with myself, flaws and all.  I'm not satisfied with my flaws, but I know that I have made some improvements in all of that time, and I am determined to make lots more.  But I can't waste time feeling sorry that I'm where I'm at.  That would just slow me down in my efforts to do better.  So I continue to me my own worst critic, but I give a lot of credibility to my favorite cheerleader too. And I try to leave one day at a time remembering my theme of 'understand(ing) the day, because each day requires something different of me.  Tomorrow requires me to be up and shower and actually shave somewhere near 7 am so I am going to end this entry and call it a day (week).